Life Support

Altered scientific glass, stainless steel, plastic tubing, oxygen mask, cyanobacteria (Arthrospira plantensis) Cyanobacteria are some of the earliest forms of life on earth. Coming from the ocean 3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria were the first species to photosynthesise: producing oxygen via chloroplasts that exist within these single-celled organisms. The chloroplasts evolved into chlorophyll within plants, allowing the development of plant life and ultimately all land-based species. Thus these micro-organisms are arguably the origins of life on earth. Life Support asks you to consider for a moment the importance of earthly flora to our fragile human existence. A symbiotic arrangement that we all too often take for granted.